Städel | Women Women Artists between Frankfurt and Paris around 1900

Modernism is unimaginable without the contribution of women artists. Not only well-known women painters and sculptors such as Louise Breslau, Ottilie W. Roederstein, and Marg Moll, but also many others successfully established themselves in the art world during the period around 1900—Erna Auerbach, Mathilde Battenberg, Ida Gerhardi, Annie Stebler-Hopf, Elizabeth Nourse, and Louise Schmidt, to name just a few. It is time to dedicate a major exhibition to these women for the first time ever, and to discover them anew.In Paris and Frankfurt alike, women artists built international networks and supported one another. As influential teachers and art agents, some of them also shaped the history of the Städel Museum and Städelschule. The Städel Museum presents some 80 paintings and sculptures by altogether 26 women artists.

We introduce these artists along with their individual achievements and highlight the widely branching networks with which they supported and encouraged one another. It is an exhibition about the self-empowerment of women artists who were no exception in their day.